Vinotinto

INTRODUCTION

Football began in the nineteenth century in Britain, and then spread throughout Europe and the rest of the planet. When FIFA was founded in 1904 the number of countries affiliated difficult to 10-20 countries. Then in 1916 he created the South American Football Confederation, which in turn organized the first international tournament, the Copa America in 1916, which tookplace in Argentina and only with the participation of 4 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile) and so on are making the tournament was when football was not yet an internationally known sports, and some countries were laying the groundwork for what they are today.

In Venezuela only in 1920, took the first steps so amateur (not organized or professional). Football in Venezuelawas seen as a sport of the country foreigners who came to practice, and hence the "League of Venezuela" was nothing more than a league of players from other countries (many of them European).

The football team of Venezuela, known as La Vinotinto, is the country's representative team in official competitions of football. Your organization is in charge of the Venezuelan Football Federation,affiliated to FIFA since 1952 and belongs to the South American Football Confederation. His debut came on February 12, 1938 with the selection of Panama in the IV Central American and Caribbean Games that year.

The term "Vinotinto" refers to the color of the team jersey. In 1938, a delegation of Venezuelan athletes attended the Bolivarian Games played in Bogotá. The InternationalOlympic Committee assigned the burgundy, also known as burgundy, for their official uniform, though the popular belief goes that by combining the colors: yellow, blue and red colors of the flag of Venezuela, we obtain the color, which can be determined easily. Since then, the national football team took that color to dress their players, and while it is true that the shirt has been changed at somepoint in history, particularly in recent times, the burgundy has graced the selection of Venezuela soccer.


First Steps (1966-1970)

The Venezuelan team first played in a playoff for the World Cup England 1966. For those qualifying the selection lost 4 of 4 matches, scored 4 goals and received 15 ending his participation.

1980, the Moscow Olympic Games

In the pre-1980 MoscowOlympics, participated in a group consisting of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Peru, Venezuela gets 2 wins (against Colombia and Bolivia) and a draw (against Chile), thus obtaining the fourth and the only one so far to pass the Olympic Games, with 5 points in the standings, noting that in South American qualifying advance only 2 countries. Unexpectedly, Argentina (pre-Olympic winner),joins the boycott called by 65 nations in protest against the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan that began in late 1979. Rather than Argentina, Venezuela part to Moscow, being in the group A, with selections from the USSR, Cuba and Zambia, just getting a win against the Africans.

this time against the United States. This gave Venezuela the advance to the next round of the group of the 3 bestthird. But in the next round were eliminated, this time just to get worse goal difference than Mexico. In addition, Jose Luis Dolgetta was the scorer of the tournament with 4 points, is also the first time a Venezuelan player gets that distinction.

Venezuela gets his second knockout victory in the September 12, 1993, during the World Cup USA 1994, beating Ecuador 2-1, in Ciudad Guayana.Venezuela would have no luck again in the playoffs to the World Cup France 1998. The team won 3 draws and 13 defeats. But the curious thing about these playoffs was the goal achieved by the goalkeeper Rafael Dudamel on 9 October in San Cristobal against Argentina.

The boom
Historical results began on August 14, 2001. In the fourteenth date of qualifying for the World Cup Korea-Japan 2002,...